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A New Orleans district lying outside the original city limits
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faubourg
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Wikipedia
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Faubourg is an ancient French term approximating " suburb " (now generally termed banlieue ). The earliest form is Forsbourg , derived from Latin foris , 'out of', and Vulgar Latin (originally Germanic) burgum , 'town' or 'fortress'. Traditionally, this ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Faubourg \Fau`bourg"\ (f[=o]`b[=oo]r"; E. f[=o]"b[=oo]rg), n. A suburb of a French city; also, a district now within a city, but formerly without its walls.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An outlying part of a city or town, beyond the walls; a suburb, especially of Paris.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a New Orleans district lying outside the original city limits; used in combination with the names of various quarters of the city; "in Faubourg Sainte Marie"
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"suburb," late 15c., from Middle French faux bourg , said by French authorities to be from Old French forsbourc (12c.) "suburbs, outskirts," literally "that which is outside the town," from fors "outside" (from Latin foris ; see foreign ) + bourc "town" ...
Usage examples of faubourg.
Paris divided in opinion, and to hear the alarming cries raised by the confederates of the Faubourgs when the King was already at St.
Sundays all business was closed, everyone went to church, and afterward working people gathered in the taverns while the bourgeois promenaded in the faubourgs.
Quetreignent nos remparts couronnes de gazons, Et ces faubourgs naissants que la ville trop pleine Pour ses enfants nouveaux eleve dans la plaine.
Testelin, nevertheless, having come to the Committee, informed us of the following:--At the corner of a street of the Faubourg Saint Antoine Gambon and himself had noticed a crowd.
But he would site it in the very unfashionable faubourg Saint-Antoine: the heart of artisan Paris, and the fulcrum of sans-culotte radicalism in the Revolution.
Dorival, Councillor to the King, Commissary of the Chatelet, formerly Superintendent of Police in the City of Paris, do certify that there has been taken to the Hospital for Children a male infant, appearing to be one day old, brought from the Faubourg St.
The worthy man took a piece of paper and gave me a note addressed to a house in the Faubourg St.
Sur la rive du faubourg, entre les deux tours du Pont Vieux, il vit des hommes bouger autour du feu de la garde.
The steps taken by Molineux, and agreed to by the bankrupt, were as follows: The suit relating to the mortgage on the property in the Faubourg du Temple having been won in the courts, the assignees decided to sell that property, and Cesar made no opposition.
CHAPTER XIII THE INDUSTRIAL ORPHAN ASYLUM When the prefectoral axe of the Baron Haussmann hewed its way through the Faubourg St.
Marie-Jeanne Trumeau, the pregnant wife of a day laborer from the faubourg Saint-Antoine.
The battalions of the artizan Faubourgs have plenty of go, but they do not obey orders.
Childlike, she named an island in the Vienne, below Limoges and nearly opposite to the Faubourg Saint-Martial, the Ile de France.
It was the inn that is in every provincial faubourg, with large stables and small bedrooms, where one sees in the middle of the court chickens pilfering the oats under the muddy gigs of the commercial travellers--a good old house, with worm-eaten balconies that creak in the wind on winter nights, always full of people, noise, and feeding, whose black tables are sticky with coffee and brandy, the thick windows made yellow by the flies, the damp napkins stained with cheap wine, and that always smells of the village, like ploughboys dressed in Sundayclothes, has a cafe on the street, and towards the countryside a kitchen-garden.
Faubourg Saint-Germain there lived an old woman, named La Voisin, who followed the calling of teller of fortunes and summoner of spirits, and she, assisted by her accomplices Le Sage and Le Vigoureux, managed to alarm and astonish people who were by no means to be considered weak or superstitious.